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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Norman, OK

May 25, 2023Beckham County, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2023, 2:44 AM CDT for Beckham County, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2023, 2:44 AM CDT (07:44 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2023, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Beckham County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1017 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 24, 6:19 PM CDT, 8 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:19 PM CDT, 8 hours 25 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	29 min
May 24, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	28 min
May 24, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Greer	31 min
May 25, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer	43 min
May 25, 12:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Greer	3 hr
May 25, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis	43 min
May 25, 12:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Greer	3 hr
May 25, 12:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	57 min
May 25, 1:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	52 min
May 25, 1:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	51 min
May 25, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	55 min
May 25, 1:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills	3 hr
May 25, 2:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Roger Mills	40 min
May 25, 2:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	3 hr
May 25, 2:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Beckham	46 min
May 25, 2:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Custer	45 min
May 25, 3:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OUN	Custer	3 hr
May 25, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	27 min
May 25, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	29 min
May 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Jackson	30 min
May 25, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	48 min
May 25, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	53 min
May 25, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Wichita	29 min
May 25, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Archer	31 min
May 25, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor	46 min
May 25, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Baylor	31 min
May 25, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OUN	Hardeman	27 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.